Apparatus for medicating



(No Model.)

A J. G. KENNEDY. I I APPARATUS FOR MEDIGATING, GOMPRESSING, AND ADMINISTERING AIR.

No. 422,802. Patented Mar. 4, 1890.

A B Amy.

WE States PATENT JoH fo. KENNEDY, or DETROITVMIQHIGAN;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. eeasoaamed March e eieo. Application filed December 133 1888- Serial iilo. 293,442. (No model.)

To ztZZ whom/ it *may concern:

' Be itknown that :1, JOHN C. KENNEDY,a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Medicat- "ing, Compressing, and Administering Air, of

which the following is a specification,- referhad therein to the accompanying ence being drawings.

:This invention relates to vn'ewand useful; improvements in apparatus for medicating,.

compressing, andadministeringair.

- My invention consists in the. peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination ofdifferent practitioners known cura;

the treatment of diseases by 4, with the position.

A is an air-pump of any suitable description.

mjan system,1 all as .4 is a vertical secti'on on line Z-Z in scribed, and, shown; in the; accompanying wings, in which;

Figure lis a sectional elevation of my apparatusfor ozonizing; air. v.J ig; 2 is a horiz'ontal section on line XiX'in' Fig. 1.- Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line Y Y iii-Fig.1.- F-ig.

and Fig. 5'is' a section [on .line 'W -W iii Fig.

. B isits;actuating-motor, for'which an elec- Y mounted in suitable proximity to trical motorwill be found.- to be most suit able, as but-light-power i's'required to operate the apparatus. t

0, is a generatorgofxstaticai electricity,

and-preferably I connection with the motor.

. Theelectrical conductor 5D connected to a separate electrodef extending DandjD-f are electrical conductors leading mountedw'ithin said tube andconnec'ted with one pole of the: generator by'l 1; h ejj D is'connected .to the metallic parts of vthe pump, but maybe into proximity to the electrode F.

parts, wherebythe apparatus is adapted for the use of gnedical for administering any one of the v tive properties applied at the'ipresent day in. time with'the the applicationmore fully hereinafter de-r I take place within the Fig. 2 5

valve-plug showniin a different. the point of the elect-rode'F, andthereby elecas is well knowahefore.

the motor, provided 'with. suitable drive--- I isa stop-cock to disconnectft-he reservoir from the pump.

J is a pressure-gage attached .tOitilQ reservolr. Kiis an outgoing pipe from the. reservoir, and Lie a stop-cockin said outgoingjpjipe Theoperation of mydevicejas far. as described'is as follows: By putting the motor into action the I pump A; sucks; the airin through the inlet tube G'into the reservoir. Bycontinningthe operation of the pump for a suitable period of time thereservoirwill p the compressed air, providedIq-the cock L is closed] and-the cock lgopened. At the samepump the". smtichi generatar will be -put" into action and the electricity generated will beconductedto the two elee of -the generator; one oji-iwhich is the electrode .F,-wh ile the'othe'r ist'ormed hythe "metallic parts of- .the pnmp'in'prcximity thereto,or the separate electrode in .proximity'to the elec trode F, whereby, as is well known, a constant discharge from one electrode to the other will tube E, through which the air is conducted into thepump. Thusall the air sucked in by the pump will'have to pass through the electrical field existing at trified and ozonized,

- it isdischar ged-into the reservoir.

'erated, of whicha portion islost by leakage or imperfect insulation, I'inclose thatwhole j.

portion of my apparatus,"preferably,.iinderla bell-glasslVL For medicating; and administering the air,

my apparatus is provided with the following partsz Aimumber, otsuitable 'jbottles N are a provided? with stoppers D fitted-in-the months; thereof, and the, upper portions of these; stop "per-s are connected by two tubes Pand. Q,

The tube P .is connected. with the flexible pipe K from the i'eceiver'and connects all the stoppers, but it is stopped oft at'thelast beta tle.- The other tube Q connects allthe stop pers in the same manner, but it'is Stoppedoff;

in the first stopper and projects out through 'thelast stopper-"of the row of bottles, Whfifo flexible discharge-give nozzle 55 is attached air into mouth or Below the pipes l? and is each stopper a val provided with two ports a, and 12, when the plug is in the position shown 3am adapted to communicate with 7 ndihg; bolts and 63 above the slug, ich ports open into the P and fine same position of the valve-pity; the port oonim'aimioates through the gorse on the under side of the plug With the tnbe U, whieh extends down into the bottle to near the bottom thereof, and the port I; communicates with portf, which opens into the top of the bottle. Thnsflf theplugis in the position shown in 8, a communication is established from the pipe P through the ports 0,6,, and 6 into the bottle and back through the ports f, s, and d into the tnbeQ; but it a quarter-turn is given to the plug commnnica tionis cut oil between the tubes l and Q. Th valve-plug in the last bottle is provided to ado ional port g, which is adapted ectly connect the ports 0 (11 without as. ing through the bottle.

Qn plastic-e the bottles N are designed for the reception of the medical agents with which the airis intended to be medicated in l "manner by vaporizing; small por- Wof in. passing through said agent.

lfl it will is seen that if the apparatus is ai'i'anged as shown in tlie diiawings, by open- :5. ing the valve Lair from the reservoir is dis- I charged into the tube P, and only means of es by passing into the tube Q through. PO! Us in the va ve-plug of the first bottle, which, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the draw-- ings, connec s the two tubes in the mannerdescribed; the other plugs being shown turned at right angles thereto, all "passage from the tshe P into the tube Q is out off; Thus the compressed air passes through the medical agent cont-shied in the first bottle and becomes medicated thereby, and the air issuing the no 'zle S of the discharge-pipe will 5 been submitted to the by the apparatus, and may dministei'ed by force of the pressure or in. the usual i met into the respiratory organs of the patient. V

By manipulating the valve plugs T in any desired manner to establish communication between the pipes P and Q the compressed .oe D d bottle, or tln'ongh several. 03. all of if desired, to impart different medical the air. If it should, however, d to administer the airwithont having' Lndei'gone the medicating' process, the last valve the series of bottles is turned in such position es to connect by its port 9' the two tubes and Q, as shown in Fig. 5, and it commnnication between the tubes P and Q is out off by all the other valveplngs the air will ing, and medioating proforced to take its way tlnron h any l'iow through the tube E into the tube Q by the only way peovided for Without passing throng; 1 any of the bottles. 7

1 pi ierably construct the air-passages into the e Q smaller than the air-passages in the 'oipe l and the ports connecting there with, for the pni'pose of forcing the air through as manybottles as desired and main taining the pressure of air within thebottles, so as to pass the air in its compressed state through the inedicating agent.

ll am. aware that it is not new to inedicate air by causing it to flow through a receptacle containing a solution of some medical agent either by forcing the air in with a pump or drawing it tl'nrongh by suction, as in the process of inhalation; but no high degree of inflation or impaction of the organs into which the 8 ail; was administered could be obtained in this manner. In apparatus provided With a pump or other means for forcing in the air it has always been the practice to locate the valve controlling the admission of airinto the medicating-bottle between the bottle or bottles and the source of air-supply, and the air was thus allowed to expand and to pass with a pressure reduced to the normal air-pressure, or nearly so, through the medicating agent in the delivcrytnbe from which it is administered.

in my construction it Will be observed that the valve-plug" in the stopper controls the discharge of air from the n1edicating-bottle,and at the same time a sufficiently larger quantity of air is always admitted into the bottle to maintain the air-pressure within the bottle at the same pressure, or nearly so, contained in the tlld'GSQTVGll on account of the inlet ports or passages into the bottle being of larger area than those leading from. it. The difference is very important, as gives to the application of my apparatus a much larger field when it is considered that in connection with air compressed to a very high degree in the reservoirsay one hundred pounds 0: more-J add to its greater concentration the mechanical action of such compressed air to become a vehicle for vapors as Well as for small particles to be mechanically carried away. There are many medical agents with which it is very difficult or entirely impossible to impregnate the air under ordinary pressure, while by the added mechanical action of air under high pressure the impregnating is readily obtained. Thus, the air being forced through the medical agent in the, bottle in a, highly compressed state and maintained in the bottle in the same state, or nearly so, it not only becomes impiegnated to a higher degree, but is also adapted to fotm a vehicle for almost any medical agent, and thus becomes a new factor in treating diseases by the administration of air to which medical properties a te im- 13 parted. Thus, for instance, I am enabled with my apparatus to impregnate the air with solutions of'nitrate of silver, chloride of gold, and other salts of metals, or solutions eeesoe a of other medieaments not capable of being veporized, 01' but indifferently so. At the same time, the application of such medical agents by means of compressedfleir as a vehicle acting to inflate, the medical agent is impacted and a minimum is only required to produce a maximum result.

N 0 claim is made herein to the ozonizin'g apparatus shown in Fig.1 as substantially the same is described and claimed in spplication, Serial No. 301,225, filed February 28', 18 89.

What I'cleim as my invention is- 1. In a device for medicatiug compressed air, the combination, with the airqeservoir H or other source of compressed air, of the se'riesof medicating bottles'N, provided with the stoppers O, the delivery-pipe P, core meeting all the stoppers with the source of compressed air, the air-delivery pipe (3011" necting all the stoppers with the discharge,

and the valve-plug in each stopper adaptedto form multiple connection between the pipes Peed Q through the medical agent in the bottle, substantially ass-described.

2, The combination, with the air-reservoir or other source of compressed air, of the se ries of mediceting-bottles N, the stoppers 0, the pipes P and Q, connecting said stoppers, the tube K, eomrecting the eipe Pwith the source of compressed air and loving; the valve L, the discharge-pipe R, connecting the pipe Q with the discharge uozzle, the Valveplugs T, havin the ports (2 and b to connect the pipes l and C} through suit-able ports in per entl through a tuhe connected thereto;

with the etire -plug T, having the ports ct end 3;, adapted to correspond with the ports a d ef and provieled wlth closed entis, sub stentiztlly es desorihezi.

4. The. cornbinetion, with the iiiI'WQ-SBIVOU or other source of compressed. air, of the series of medieating-hottles, the stoppers 0, se cured the'reto,-the pipes P we Q, adapted to connect Stiil stoppers, respectively, with the source of compressed air and with the discherge-tube, and vtlve-controllel multiple connections in each stopper between said pipes Pond Q, such connections havingiarge ports connecting with the sir-inlet and smaller ports connecting With the sir-outlet, sub" stain tielly as described,

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two Witnesses, thisllthday of December, 1888.

JOHN C. Wtitnesses: J PAUL MAYER, P. M. H'ULBERYI, 

